Bereczki Ibolya - Sári Zsolt: Ház és Ember, A Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum évkönyve 28-29. (Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 2017)
SÁRI ZSOLT: A Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum társadalmi múzeumi szerepei - falumúzeumtól a szolidáris múzeumig
Zsolt Sári SOCIAL MUSEUM ROLES OF THE HUNGARIAN OPEN AIR MUSEUM FROM THE VILLAGE MUSEUM TO THE SOLIDARITY MUSEUM New museology, emerging in the 1970s reached critical museology at the beginning of the 2000s. A few peculiar examples of participatory museology already has a decade of tradition in the Hungarian Open Air Museum too. It has been a long way from a basically architectural museum to the social museum. In my paper I reflect on some elements of this history. Open air museums represent one of the most popular and sought-after museum types of the world with significant ethnographic and historical collections, with determining, visitor-friendly exhibitions attracting the public, and a wide range of programmes related to these exhibitions. It is a general phenomenon in the museum world that social problems and sensitive issues of society first appear in education programmes, then in research and collection strategy, then finally in the exhibition policy too. So it was in the case of the Skanzen too. This tendency began in the early millennium years, when connected to the Trianon syndrome it materialised in the research work related to the preparation of the Transylvanian building complex, then to the social traumas of the 20th century peasant society. The issue of minority existence outside the country’s border will be one of the important cornerstones of the Transylvanian building complex. This has already appeared in the research and will be part of the interpretation too. The analysis of 20th century changes and the research and collection connected to the future 20th century building complex touched upon the era and history of the peasant society’s elimination too. In my paper I present the communities linked to the museum, the opportunities of taking social responsibility: the integrated camp and the dementia programme. 59
